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A new list of the most offbeat experiences in Europe features giant omelettes, beer spas in Austria and mud Olympics in Germany.

While the rest of the country will be glued to their television sets cheering on team USA in the Winter Olympics this month, the associates at Tops Friendly Markets are gearing up for their own Olympics, with a twist.  Over the course of the next several weeks, associates across Tops’ three-state imprint will be challenging one another to a produce themed Olympic competition to see will who will bring home the gold.

Tops: Olympic Games for produce

Viewers may remember the unlikely but true story of the Jamaican bobsled team that made it to the Olympics. It was a feat popularized in the 1993 film, "Cool Runnings." Now, Jamaica's bobsled team is back at it again. Lucy Watson from Independent Television News explains.

Olympics. we're showing up and actually qualifying was in itself a victory for people who don't know the story, tell us about it. how did you get the idea to field a bob sled team from jamaica and how did you get to iccalgar calgary? >> two americans who lived in jamaica saw the push cars guys race down a mountain road and thought it looked like bob sledding except for the ice. >> a big difference. >> a small difference. it's all in the details. but then discovered that you need sprinters for the start and guess where we have lots of those. the guys in the summer team didn't want to do it. the...